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Article: Area expert on grieving trauma dies.(General News)(Obituary: Neila Campbell, a well-known death educator, loses her six-month battle with cancer.)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- March 2, 2002
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Byline: SUSAN PALMER The Register-Guard
Neila Campbell, a local grief and trauma counselor instrumental in helping school districts develop crisis response networks, died after a six-month battle with cancer. She was 56.
Campbell was a certified death educator best known in the area for helping schools cope with trauma such as the 1998 shooting at Thurston High School.
But she also was a grief counselor, therapeutic touch trainer and a volunteer coordinator who worked with the county's Elder Help Volunteer Program for 14 years.
Over the years, she taught hundreds of educators, health care professionals, religious groups and government ...